In most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the ps (process status) program displays the currently-running processes. The related Unix utility top provides...
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PS, P.S., or ps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. P.S. commonly refers to: Postscript, writing added after the main body of a letter PS, P.S., ps,...
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nice is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. nice is used to invoke...
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IBM AIX (redirect from Advanced IBM UNIX)
AIX (pronounced /ˌeɪ.aɪ.ˈɛks/ ay-eye-EKS) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM since 1986. The name stands for "Advanced...
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Kill (command) (redirect from Kill (Unix))
popular operating systems to send signals to running processes. In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, kill is a command used to send a signal to a...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
applications List of Unix daemons List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems Unix philosophy util-linux The Wikibook Guide to UNIX has a page...
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When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...
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later. IBM also released AIX PS/2, a UNIX operating system for PS/2 models with Intel 386 or later processors. IBM's initial PS/2 computers were popular with...
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Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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blocked state, and may still be waiting for a resource to become available). ps (Unix) Abraham Silberschatz; Peter Baer Galvin; Greg Gagne (2008-07-29). Operating...
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The command is a one-command combination of several other Unix programs: who, uptime, and ps -a. Sample output (which may vary between systems): $ w 11:12am...
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646 standard. Unix followed the Multics practice, and later Unix-like systems followed Unix. This created conflicts between Windows and Unix-like operating...
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Pstree (redirect from Pstree (Unix))
alternative to the ps command. The root of the tree is either init or the process with the given pid. It can also be installed in other Unix systems. In BSD...
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Display PostScript (redirect from Display ps)
PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing) to generate on-screen graphics. To the basic PS system, DPS adds...
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System htop, for the Unix shell Plasma System Monitor, included in KDE Plasma Desktop nmon, for Linux and AIX ps, for the Unix shell Task Manager, included...
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Top (software) (redirect from Top (UNIX))
of processes) is a task manager or system monitor program, found in many Unix-like operating systems, that displays information about CPU and memory utilization...
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Rob Pike (category Unix people)
working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team. Pike wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.[non-primary source needed] He is the sole...
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Watch (command) (redirect from Watch (Unix))
for it to run correctly. watch [options] command [command options] watch "ps -e | grep php" This will generate a list of processes every two seconds, filter...
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Background process (section Background jobs in Unix)
daemons. In this example running on Unix, the sleep utility was launched into the background. Afterward, the ps tool was run in the foreground, where...
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Interactive Systems Corporation (redirect from Interactive Unix)
abbreviated ISC) was a US-based software company and the first vendor of the Unix operating system outside AT&T, operating from Santa Monica, California. It...
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Michigan Computing Center (October 1988). "UNIX Notes". U-M Computing News. Vol. 3, no. 17. pp. 18–19. "IBM PS/2 (Model 60) – Technical Specifications"...
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Printer driver (section Unix and Unix-like)
printer. Unix and other Unix-like systems such as Linux and OS X use CUPS (short for Common Unix Printing System), a modular printing system for Unix-like...
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Workstation (redirect from Unix workstation)
operating system they run", with the former running Unix and the latter running OS/2, classic Mac OS, and/or Unix. Many workstations by then had some method to...
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Symbolic link (category Unix file system technology)
specifying a path thereto. Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. Limited support...
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СС БИС) — Cray clone BESM (БЭСМ) — series of mainframes Besta (Беста) — Unix box, Motorola 68020-based, Sun-3 clone Elbrus (Эльбрус) — high-end mainframe...
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Procfs (category Unix file system technology)
reporting utility ps uses the proc file system to obtain its data, without using any specialized system calls. Tom J. Killian implemented the UNIX 8th Edition...
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Here document (section Unix shells)
whitespace (including indentation) in the text. Here documents originate in the Unix shell, and are found in the Bourne shell since 1979, and most subsequent...
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List of operating systems (section Unix or Unix-like)
v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5 UNIX Time-Sharing System v6 MINI-UNIX PWB/UNIX USG CB Unix UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and...
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shipped with the Academic Operating System (AOS), an IBM port of 4.3BSD Unix to the RT PC. It was offered as an alternative to AIX, the usual RT PC operating...
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DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, zsh, Bash, etc.), CP/M's CCP, DOS' COMMAND.COM...
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